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mantle balls

These are the last of my dads mantles he thinks these were signed in person but I am not old enough to remember. The first 2 pics are of the 1st ball the rest of the pics are of the second ball. What do you think real or fake. I am trying to educate myself on Mantles but really the only ones that I can tell for sure are the monkey ones and the really obvious bad forgeries.

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Permalink Reply by Randy on July 24, 2014 at 7:49pm

These 2 are authentic.

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Permalink Reply by terrier8HOF on July 25, 2014 at 3:35am

authentic

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Permalink Reply by Null on July 25, 2014 at 6:13am

Authentic, and in great shape.

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Permalink Reply by Fuddjcal on July 25, 2014 at 9:03am

Both are signed Boldly and on Snow white balls!!! Also, pretty large sigs...

I would call these "CADILLAC" signatures and are 100% AUTHENTIC, IMO. Nice one's DAD!!!

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Permalink Reply by Joel on July 25, 2014 at 10:54am

Good to the hear. These must of been the mantles he got signed in person.

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Permalink Reply by GraphingMlb on July 25, 2014 at 11:15am

You dad was what I like to call the smart collector...Benefits the kids later on in life!

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Permalink Reply by Joel on July 25, 2014 at 12:36pm

Tony, I do not know that I would say he was a smart collector because I think (I am sure I will find out for sure through this site) he bought a lot of forged stuff. He had the thinking that if an auto came with a coa it had to be real. Luckily, he did get a decent amount of things signed in person at shows. And yes at some point it will benefit myself and my siblings.